Readings

1) "In Common Core, Teachers See Interdisciplinary Opportunities," by Liana Heitin. Education Week. March 13, 2013.
2) "The Common Core Ate My Baby and Other Urban Legends," by Timothy Shanahan. Educational Leadership. Dec 2012/Jan 2013.

Task

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Description: In this assignment, you and your teammates will work together as the editorial team of a new political website called ElectionSPACE.com. In just a few days, you will launch your website. For weeks your crack team of researchers and ambitious interns has been compiling a number of resources, documents, videos, images, and all sorts of other information related to the history of elections. Your mission is to read, summarize, and assess these pieces of information, and then to create the front page of the website with the goal of grabbing the attention of the public by using this information in the best possible way.

Required Features To Include

1. Attention Grabbing Headline.
2. Captions for images or graphs.
3. Selection of a minimum of five pieces of content for your website.
4. Quick summary of main points of articles or primary sources.
5. Explanation tying these various elements together.

Other Features to Consider

1. Arrangement of Materials: What is the most effective way to arrange the materials? To grab attention? To share information? To keep the reader/ viewer engaged?
2. Use of Language: When you write a headline, or title an article, think about what sort of language is likely to engage the attention of your reader.
3. What’s the angle? Think about your purpose in assembling these materials- there are a number of stories you can tell, which is the best for your purposes?
4. User interface: In terms of online engagement, think about your favorite websites- what do they look like? How does the user engage with the material? What makes one arrangement better than another?
5. Use your imagination, and the strengths of your teammates.

Choose your resources from the following categories: Videos, Campaign Ads, Photographs, Primary Source Documents, Articles about Elections, Infographics, Statistics, Charts, etc...

Information

1) Voter Turnout Rates (1828-2008) (graph)

2) Election Maps (1789-2012)

Videos

Eisenhower Election- 1952

For more campaign videos,
http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/

Eisenhower Campaign Ad "I Like Ike"- 1952


Eisenhower Campaign Ad 1956-


Stevenson Campaign Ad- 1952


Stevenson Campaign Ad 1956

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Kennedy Election- 1960

Kennedy Campaign Ad


Kennedy Campaign Ad- JFK/Nixon Debate Campaign Video


Kennedy Campaign Ad- Jacqueline Kennedy commercial in Spanish


Nixon Campaign Ad- 1960

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Johnson Election(JBL) 1964

Johnson Campaign ad 1964 "Peace, Little Girl"


Goldwater Campaign Ad

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Nixon Election

Nixon Campaign Ad 1968


Humphrey(D) Campaign Ad 1968


Wallace(I) Campaign Ad 1968


Nixon Campaign Ad 1972

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Carter Election 1976

Carter Campaign Ad 1976


Ford Campaign Ad

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Reagan Election 1980

Reagan Campaign Ad 1980


Reagan Campaign Ad 1980- Nancy Reagan


Carter (D) Campaign Ad 1980


Anderson(I) Campaign Ad 1980


Reagan Campaign Ad 1984


Reagan Campaign Ad 1984


Mondale Campaign Ad 1984

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George H.W Bush Election 1988

George H.W. Bush Campaign Ad 1988


Dukakis Campaign Ad 1988


http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/

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Photographs

Link to Campaign Posters from the Library of Congress- Click Here

Lincoln 1860


Hayes 1876


Harding 1920



Eisenhower 1956




Reagan

Campaign pins and buttons

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Documents

The Power of Television Images: The First Kennedy- Nixon Debate

Carter Campaign



Kennedy